Binyavanga Wainaina: Literary Legacies and Creative Futures At ASAUK 2020 Cardiff, Wales, UK 08-10 September 2020 Following the general call, we are delighted to share the call for papers for the thematic stream ‘Binyavanga Wainaina: Literary Legacies and Creative Futures’… Read More ›
African futures
CFP: African Studies Association Annual Meeting 2020 (Deadline: 15 March)
African Studies Association Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. November 19-21, 2020 The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies The theme of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association draws its inspiration from the persistent calls to… Read More ›
Save the Date: ECAS 2021, ‘African Futures’ (02-05 June, 2021)
9th European Conference on African Studies ‘African Futures’ University of Cologne, Germany 2-5 June, 2021 ‘African Futures’ aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. The continent has been characterized as… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Digital Humanities and the Future of Chronicling the African Past (Deadline: 15 December)
CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND THE FUTURE OF CHRONICLING THE AFRICAN PAST The incoming editors of History in Africa are inaugurating thematic issues as part of a new feature highlighting how Africanists are engaging with key trends in history and methods…. Read More ›
Call for submissions: K & L Prize for African Literature 2020
The team at K & L Prize for African Literature 2020 are calling for short story entries from young African writers on the theme ‘Africanfuturism’. Africanfuturism, a term coined by Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor, is a genre that often depicts… Read More ›
Call for Applications: AEGIS Summer School (Deadline: 30 September)
African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections on a Continent in Transition AEGIS Summer School 9-13 June 2020 Cagliari, Italy The 2020 Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Summer School will address the theme of African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Jalada No.06: After + Life (Deadline: 05 June)
We are delighted to share this call for submissions for Jalada’s 6th anthology ‘After+Life’. The afterlife has been a mysterious curiosity for as long as humans can remember. Myths, stories, or even entire religions have been born out of our… Read More ›
Event: Ake Arts & Book Festival (25-28 October, Lagos)
Ake Arts & Book Festival is fast approaching! The sixth edition of the festival will take place for the first time in Lagos on October 25 – 28, 2018. The theme for this year is Fantastical Futures and events and conversations will… Read More ›
Event: The 2nd Cultural Compounds Presentation (7th July, London)
The 2nd Cultural Compounds presentation: IS AFRICAN IDENTITY LOST IN TRANSLATION? Saturday 7th July 2018 9am-8pm University of London Cultural Compounds is a series of one day symposiums exploring how the cultural and the personal conditions of African diasporic society relate to… Read More ›
CfP: Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas, Finding Africa Seminar Series, 2018
AiW thanks to Finding Africa for this info about their 2018 seminar series… Finding Africa 2017/18 (UK) Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas University of Leeds Seminar Series 2018 – Call For Papers
CfP: “Imagining Africa’s Future: Language, Culture, Governance, Development, SOAS Africa Conference, 20-21 July 2017, London, deadline 10 Dec 2016
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS SOAS Africa Conference, 2017 “Imagining Africa’s Future: Language, Culture, Governance, Development” 20th and 21st of July 2017 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS-University of London deadline: 10 December 2016 The SOAS Centre of African studies (CAS) hereby calls… Read More ›
Event: Lagos International Poetry Festival, 26-30 October 2016, Lagos
Lagos International Poetry Festival 26-30 October 2016 Freedom Park and the Muson Center, Lagos The city of Lagos will play host to 35 poets from across the world at the sophomore edition of the Lagos Poetry Festival, scheduled to hold… Read More ›
Events: African Literature at the London Literature Festival, 5 -16 October 2016, London
London Literature Festival Living in Future Times Wednesday 5 October 2016 – Sunday 16 October 2016 The world today increasingly resembles the realm of science fiction. From satellites which map our every movement to robots in the workplace, the stuff… Read More ›
CFP: Africa Research Day “Redefining the Past, Imagining the Future” 25 May 2016, London, Deadline 19 April 2016
Call for Papers Africa Research Day “Redefining the Past, Imagining the Future” 25 May 2016, London, Deadline 29 April 2016 Looking at Africa’s past is not only relevant for students and researchers of history. Worldover, movements of de-colonisation are calling… Read More ›
Imagine Africa 500 Anthology: Submissions Deadline 15 March 2015
The Story Club Malawi, in partnership with Malawian publisher Panafrica Publishers Ltd., has announced an open submission for its upcoming anthology IMAGINE AFRICA 500. The anthology will collect short stories set in Africa in 2515: “We urge writers from all… Read More ›